Et Tu, Joe the Plumber?

This guy is a damn liar, but who is to blame? The media for even interviewing this idiot. Now that he has acquired a taste for publicity, all of a sudden he has written a book? Who in the hell wrote it for him in the space of less two months. Come on America, let's show him exactly who has the brains!! Don't buy that stupid book!!

This dude had been a regular caller on rightwing radio circuit for some time. We're to believe he just "happened" to be where Obama was when he asked him those idiotic questions? Dittoheads unite! Of course, what more would you expect from someone who thinks Rush Limbaugh is a true American patriot. Pass me the donuts and drugs please!

What's worse, someone who is very smart and educated, but acts incredibly stupid or an ill informed, irresponsible citizen who believes he can interject himself into a presidential campaign and have a positive impact?

Watching FOX News or listening to rightwing nut radio does not make someone "educated in politics" as Joe claims. I dare say it proves how ignorant and uninformed you are. Get a life, take care of your responsibilities and form your own opinions, not ditto, ditto, ditto....

On the contrary, what makes me annoyed is that Mr-Know-it-all (aka Joe the Fraud) goes, "Oh my gosh, I'm so worried, under Obama it sounds like we're going to be transitioning closer to Marxism and Socialism." to fear-monger, when its obvious:

-He doesn't have a darned clue what socialism and Marxism is
-Hasn't read Das Kapital, in contrast to his claims that he knows more about politics.
-If he really knew the tenets of Socialism and Marxism, he'd know that Obama isn't a socialist, though he of course is more to the left then the right.
-He'd know that our tax system is fundamentally socialist- you pay taxes, govt uses them for common good- to build roads for everybody to use, for that dispatcher who answers the phone when you dial 911.

He's just saying them to sound intelligent and to scare people.

To those of you defending Sarah Palin, yeah, fine, maybe she IS qualified to be governor, but definitely not VPOTUS. She uttered plain gibberish during the interviews. She has an annoying habit of NOT answering questions and beating around the bush. She could not even talk in proper sentences. And it's pretty obvious half the time she had no clue what she was talking about.

who is the shadow writer?

Colonel Reb---quotes please. since you are apparently an academic i assume you can cite the parallels' manuscript and page number. thanks for your time and effort. we eagerly await your reply. i apologize for any mis-spelled words or grammatical errors. many thanks.

Joe the Plumber NOT was nothing but a political plant. The entire thing was a ploy and scripted from the beginning. To believe he came out of nowhere coincidentally running into Senator Obama is just ignorant. Just another Pub stunt that failed just like the two jokes they ran for the Presidency.

Go away Joe the Loser. I heard they had an open plumber position in Alaska for you. You'll be in good company there with someone else of little signifigance...

It's telling that so many of Joe's critics are upset that his use of the term "Marxist" isn't technically accurate enough
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Let's define the word 'critic', shall we?
Books have critics.
Movies have critics.
Theories have critics.

Liars don't have critics. They have fact-finders who expose their lies.

and no, Joe's 15 minutes are not up. We have a whole 4 years to spare for him, thank you very much. Keep talking, Joe. We like the reminder.

"I say, McCain, what's that I see on your back"

"why, that would be a plumber's knife, silly!"

"But what's a plumber doing with a knife?"

"why, I gave it to him, silly! you and your gotcha questions."

"So while you are throwing dirt at her on blogs and digging the late night show jokes about her, she is garnering positive kudos in other public opinion maker venues."

ROFLMAO!

Watch out Alaskan residents and Canadians!

"It's telling that so many of Joe's critics are upset that his use of the term "Marxist" isn't technically accurate enough."

I can't speak for others.

But I find that a guy who lies about his position:

1) He claimed he was about to buy a business that made a certain amount of money. He was not about to buy a business and the business did not earn nearly that much.

2) and is hypocritical in being highly critical of something while he benefited it:

Joe doesn't like welfare and redistribution of wealth when he in fact collected it.

That this fraud became a hero to right wingers is quite telling.

It's telling that so many of Joe's critics are upset that his use of the term "Marxist" isn't technically accurate enough. It explains a great deal about why the people here are impressed by high priced college names more than real achievements and common sense.

Real Republicans weren't frightened by Sarah Palin. Only faux Republicans in blue states who had no clue about her real record were.

And it's hilarious watching people who clearly don't have a clue about her record talk about how stupid she is. Yeah, she's so stupid she managed to unseat a sitting governor in her own party in a primary and defeat two other candidates for the job (including a guy who is apparently a walking encyclopedia), had major bipartisan achievements (including both a gas pipeline and oil revenue restructuring that were opposed by the oil companies in Alaska), enjoyed an approval rating as high as 89%, and documentary maker Elan Frank followed her around for three days and she never asked him to turn off the camera. Oh, and she was cleared on the ethics charges that were supposed to bring her down because there was never anything there.

So we're supposed to believe that any twit of a beauty queen can defeat an incumbant governor with 24 years of political experience, pass legislation opposed by the oil industry, talk with T. Boone Pickens (in his words) "like two oil and gas professionals", and enjoy an 80%+ approval rating as governor, right? In your fantasies, maybe. And, yeah, she's so "intolerant" that she vetoed a bill that would have denied gays and lesbians health benefits from the state when she was told it would be unconstitutional by her legal experts.

"Like Sarah Palin, he's a little rough around the edges, but I think he's an ideal Republican candidate:

Ignorant and proud of it. He's a plumber who really isn't a plumber. A welfare queen who hates socialism. He sucks up to McCain as a way to get a leg up in this horrible Republican economy, and then throws him under the bus when he's done. He doesn't seem to have any beliefs, but he is loyal to the Republican brand, whatever that is. "

Blip nails it.

Can you imagine if every political plant got a book deal?

Oh wait, Sarah's getting one too.

I have decided that 90% of the people here must either be insane, or all the different names are just a few people pretending to be many, or you are all from the same little radical group who go on these attacks.

You guys all sound EXACTLY the same. Ya'll repeat lies and attack people (who don't deserve it) just to push your propaganda and agenda on the rest of us.

Neither Palin (who is not even related to this story) nor Wurzelbacher have done anything to deserve your nasty, bitter comments. You don't even know those people.

just the facts, maam! Walk away from FOX News or rightwing radio and check out reality, not interpretation of them.

Actually, we applaud Joe The Talker and Sarah The Shopper for getting Obama elected. You have such great spokespeople in recent memory (i.e., Linda Tripp, Ken Starr, Newtie Gingrich, Dan Burton, Tom Delay, Bob Barr, Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity....

As the fools keep picking bits and pieces of semi-information and forming those opinions still..

Hey! The guy wasn't working illegally. He didn't have a contractor's license so he didn't have his own business yet. He was working for someone else who had a license.

I am so tired of people repeating and spreading lies because they are too LAZY to get all the facts BEFORE commenting!

What welfare??? He wasn't on "welfare"!

Speaking of ignorance!

What is wrong with our society that people take sound bites here and there and form opinions and eventually belief systems around them???

Also, where do you get he is "money hungry"?? He just wants to make a living and be successful like everyone ELSE in the world. We all want an opportunity to better our lives. What is wrong with that???